ICE fires first shot.

[Brainonska511]

Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony

A misdemeanor assault case against Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first to go to trial after dozens of people were accused of impeding or attacking federal agents during protests against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

www.latimes.com

A protester was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he assaulted a federal agent during widespread protests against immigration crackdowns in Los Angeles, just hours after one of the faces of President Trump’s enforcement policies took the stand to testify against him.

U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino — the brash agent who led a phalanx of military personnel into MacArthur Park this summer — was called as a witness Wednesday in a federal misdemeanor assault case against Brayan Ramos-Brito, who was accused of striking a federal agent.

Bovino, who flew in to testify from Chicago, the latest city targeted for an immigration enforcement surge, said he witnessed the alleged assault committed by Ramos-Brito in Paramount on June 7.

Bovino was questioned by the defense about previous comments he made referring to undocumented immigrants as “scum.”

The jury came back with the acquittal after a little over an hour of deliberations.

LOL - they had Bovino come and testify against this person and the jury either said "we don't believe you" or "haha, fuck you ICE".

 

[K1052]

Protester found not guilty of assault despite top Border Patrol official's testimony

A misdemeanor assault case against Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first to go to trial after dozens of people were accused of impeding or attacking federal agents during protests against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

www.latimes.com

LOL - they had Bovino come and testify against this person and the jury either said "we don't believe you" or "haha, fuck you ICE".

Juries all over the place giving the DOJ the finger seems like a barrier to consolidating the regime’s rule.

 

[K1052]

There was a lot of talk originally about how ICE would overlook red states for economic reasons and well...if Texas was a person they would be under psychiatric supervision for self harm concerns.





https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigration-enforcement-dashboard

 

[Brainonska511]

https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz4knjkxhc2h

Trump appointed federal judge grants the preliminary injunction blocking the deportation of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. And calls out the government's bullshit too in the decision.

 

[Brainonska511]

https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz4knjkxhc2h

Trump appointed federal judge grants the preliminary injunction blocking the deportation of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala. And calls out the government's bullshit too in the decision.

Some further details on the opinion in this thread, but specifically:

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz4mamjslc2l

Is it bad when judges call you out for misrepresenting and lying about the record?

 

[outriding]

Some further details on the opinion in this thread, but specifically:

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz4mamjslc2l

Is it bad when judges call you out for misrepresenting and lying about the record?

Why are these lawyers not getting their license revoked

 

[Brainonska511]

Why are these lawyers not getting their license revoked

Some of it is probably "building the record", but some of it is that licensing organizations are extremely weak.

 

[brycejones]

Why are these lawyers not getting their license revoked

Disbarment is a slow process.

 

[fskimospy]

Some of it is probably "building the record", but some of it is that licensing organizations are extremely weak.

Most of it is the latter, including extreme reluctance among lawyers to make legal arguments sanctionable, even obviously bad faith ones like this. (I think we should be far more comfortable with sanctioning lawyers who act unethically in this way but that's just me)

Certain things will get you disbarred quite easily. Co-mingling funds with a client's? (ie: stealing from them) Disbarred pretty easily. Sleeping with your clients? Disbarred. Lying to the court in order to deport small children to a life of misery? Welllllll... what can you do.

 

[Brainonska511]

Most of it is the latter, including extreme reluctance among lawyers to make legal arguments sanctionable, even obviously bad faith ones like this. (I think we should be far more comfortable with sanctioning lawyers who act unethically in this way but that's just me)

You'd probably have to fix law school journals that basically exist to let people make and launder bad faith legal arguments and encourage professors to enforce standards that bullshit arguments shouldn't be entertained for "debate purposes".

 

[fskimospy]

You'd probably have to fix law school journals that basically exist to let people make and launder bad faith legal arguments and encourage professors to enforce standards that bullshit arguments shouldn't be entertained for "debate purposes".

The legal profession has definitely spent far, far too many years smelling its own farts about the sacrosanct nature of debate.

As a society we have legally argued ourselves from a constitution based on a distrust of unfettered executive power into a situation where the president is a king who can kill with impunity, one stupid step at a time.

 

[nickqt]

Some further details on the opinion in this thread, but specifically:

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz4mamjslc2l

Is it bad when judges call you out for misrepresenting and lying about the record?

3 Trump appointees and some older fascists are going to shoot that down in the shadow docket shortly.

 

[hal2kilo]

There was a lot of talk originally about how ICE would overlook red states for economic reasons and well...if Texas was a person they would be under psychiatric supervision for self harm concerns.


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https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigration-enforcement-dashboard

Wow, FL's doing a bang up job, or being overlooked. My ex back in 1974 couldn't get a job in Broward county because she could not speak Spanish.

 

[Brainonska511]

Shadow hearings on the insanely cruel immigration policies that people like Greenman support:

https://bsky.app/profile/repdexteror.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz5iuuhrss2w

 

[igor_kavinski]

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigration-enforcement-dashboard

Can someone explain the low arrest count in Montana?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Sleeping with your clients? Disbarred.

REALLY????

What if the lawyer wants to know the client better to fight better?

I bet there are movies about this dilemma. I can just sense it.

What if it's just sleeping sleeping and nothing else? You know, in pajamas?

 

[brycejones]

REALLY????

What if the lawyer wants to know the client better to fight better?

I bet there are movies about this dilemma. I can just sense it.

What if it's just sleeping sleeping and nothing else? You know, in pajamas?

Less movies, more real life for you!

 

[nakedfrog]

Can someone explain the low arrest count in Montana?

The state itself only has a population of 1.1 million, many of them virulently racist. As of 2024 the estimated undocumented immigrant population was 4,000.

 

[hal2kilo]

The state itself only has a population of 1.1 million, many of them virulently racist. As of 2024 the estimated undocumented immigrant population was 4,000.

But, why does FL have such a low number, being the home of Alligator alley. There's a huge Hispanic population there also.

 

[nakedfrog]

But, why does FL have such a low number, being the home of Alligator alley. There's a huge Hispanic population there also.

Poor choice of colors, you can see it's in the darkest blue, indicating a high number of arrests, I can just barely make out the , before the part of the number that's over the FL image, the part before the , is also white but on a white background, obscuring it. If you click the link you can see another chart that shows the Miami AOR is at 29,122, presumably there are others in the state that make up the total?



Edit: finally got https://enforcementdashboard.com to load, it puts FL's total at 22,512, so you're just seeing the 512 part on the image.

 

[Brainonska511]

Oh look, more illegal things happening by the Trump administration when it comes to immigration:

A $100k for each H1B visa despite the executive not having the authority to charge arbitrary amounts:

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz7xfdyyrc2n

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz7ukvutvk2z

And using EB-1/-2 visas for the "buy your way in" program when they are only supposed to be for extraordinary talent (having lots of money is not a talent):
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lz7vbxwpf22v

 

[Brainonska511]

Oh look, more illegal things happening by the Trump administration when it comes to immigration:

A $100k for each H1B visa despite the executive not having the authority to charge arbitrary amounts:

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz7xfdyyrc2n

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lz7ukvutvk2z

And using EB-1/-2 visas for the "buy your way in" program when they are only supposed to be for extraordinary talent (having lots of money is not a talent):
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lz7vbxwpf22v

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

🚨I cannot express enough how serious this is. We are looking at a potential Travel Ban 1.0 in 2017 situation, where people with legal status were detained at airports. Trump has written a ban so broad that on its face it blocks the entry of people with current, valid visas. [contains quote post...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)

If you are an H-1B visa holder and you are currently outside the country on vacation or visiting family or whatever, if you don't get back here in the next 24 hours, you may not be allowed back in until this is blocked in court or you or your employer come up with $100,000. Seriously.

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Just potential insanity. Screwing people legally working on the US for reasons, and further nuking the economic talent pool. But total hallmark of the Trump administration's MO.

Always remember that the person who pioneered 5G had been educated in the US and was forced to leave because he couldn't get a green card, so he went on to work in a separate country and put China in the lead there.